The Utkal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UCCI) in collaboration with the District Industries Centre, Bhubaneswar, organised an awareness programme for young women entrepreneurship here on Sunday.
Khordha Collector Niranjan Sahoo attended the programme as chief guest and motivated the young women entrepreneurs to come up as successful entrepreneurs.
District Industries Centre (DIC), Bhubaneswar General Manager D Mishra and Directorate of Industries Joint Director, Cuttack SK Sarangi attended as guests of honour and highlighted different policies and EDP training programme supported by the Central and State Governments and urged new women entrepreneurs to grab the advantages of the same.
SIDBI DGM THR Samad and NABARD AGM NP Parhi deliberated on different schemes and loans available for the new entrepreneurs. UCCI President Ramesh Mahapatra presided over the meeting. Different schemes envisaged specifically for women entrepreneur were also discussed.
About 100 participants from different colleges, institutions and house wives, who want to be entrepreneurs, attended the programme. Around 30 prospective candidates were shortlisted for the purpose of EDP training by the State Government through an aptitude test.
UCCI Secretary Prasant Satapathy and CSR head Dr Geeta Padhi also spoke.